Work-support for calculating-machines



J. H. HUBER.

WORK SUPPORT FOR CALCULATING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10, 1919.

.1 ,335;239. P tente Mar. 30,1920.

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I WORK-SUPPORT Eon CALCULATING-MACHINES.

Specification of-Letters I'atent. Patented Mar. 30, 1920.

Application filed March 10, 1919. 7 Serial 110,281,717

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH I-I. HUBER, a citizen of the United, States, residing at Peru, in the county of Miami and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and usefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its. primary object to provide a simply constructed and inexpensive, yet a highly convenient and desirable work support to be used in connection with all sorts of calculating machines such as those employed in banking and bookkeeping in all branches, the supporting shelf being provided with a pocket or pockets to receive the checks, deposit slips, or other slips of paper, in connection with which work has been performed upon the machine;

A further object is to provide each pocket with an inclined bottom and an approximately vertical wall at the lower end of such bottom, whereby the jarring of the checks or the like, by the vibration of the machine,

will slide them downwardly against said vertical wall to maintain them in orderly fashion as the are stacked upon the bottom.

A still furt er object is to provide a supporting shelf having an area reserved adjacent each pocket upon which to stack the slips to be subsequently received in such pocket.

lVith the foregoing in view, the invention resides in the novel'features of construction and unique associationof parts, hereinafter fully described and claimed, the descriptive matter being supplemented by the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this application.

Figure 1 man edge view of my invention applied to a calculating machine;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawing above briefly described,

the numeral 1 designates a flathorizontal' shelf which is preferably but not necessarily of rectangular formation, said shelf being adapted to be connected to the frame or other part of a calculating machine in any preferred manner, and for illustrative purposes, I have shown said shelf hinged at 2 to the frame .3 of an adding machine 4, any

adequate means Such as a bracerod 5, being provided forholding the shelfin horizontal position an d for permitting'the same to be lowered as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,

when its use is no longer needed. In the present arrangement, the brace rod 5 is pivoted as at 6 to the shelf 1 and the lower end of said rod is removably received in an opening 7 in part of the frame 3. By raising the shelf to the proper extent, the rod 5 is Withdrawn from the opening 7, thus permitting the shelf to be lowered.

The shelf illustrated in the present application, is adapted for use in banks and has two areas 8 and 9 reserved for checks 10 and deposit slips 11, and adjacent these areas 8 and 9, two pockets 12 and 13 are provided, said pockets being by preference located to the left of the aforesaid areas and disposed obliquely for sake of convenience. The checks 10 will in most instances be stacked in a tray 14 having a bottom 15, a

' may be provided for the deposit slips 11,

but in most instances this is unnecessary. Asthe amounts on the checks are listed upon the adding or other calculating machine 4, they are taken from the tray 14 and placed in the pocket 12 and similarly, after each deposit slip has been listed, it is placed in pocket 13.

To maintain the checks and deposit slips in orderly fashion and thus prevent disarrangement thereof, each of the aforesaid pockets is provided with an inclined bottom 18 and an approximately vertical wall 19 at the lower end or suchbottom. The parts '18 and 19 and two end walls 20 form the pockets as clearly shown. As the checks 10, deposit slips 11, or other slips of paper, according to the use of the device, are stacked upon the bottoms of their respective pockets, the vibration of the calculating machine causes them to slide downwardly against the approximately vertical wall 19 thus preventing disarrangement and insuring that they shall remain in' orderly fashion.

As above suggested, the device is intended for installation upon all forms of machines, used in banking, bookkeeping, etc., and the arrangement and number of pockets may vary according to the use ofthe device. For these reasons, I do not wish to be restricted to the exact details and arrangement shown, and although the s'helf'is'shown piv otally mounted for downward folding when not in use, it will be understoodthat it may well be mounted in any preferred manner. I claim: I Awvork holder for calculating machines comprising a fiat horizontal. shelf disposed throughout its area in the, same plane and having an area or areas near itsright hand edge reservedfor slips inconnection with which work is to be'performed on the cal c'ulating machine, said shelf being provided at the left 'of each such area with a pocket 'has'been performed, each pockethaving :1

adapted to ieceive the slips after the work f JOSEP H. UB R; 

